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Citizens need to become more informed and engaged in evaluating what their government is doing, rather than allowing apathy, fear or naked political partisanship to dictate their positions, the Memphis Commercial Appeal says in an editorial after its editors met this week with ABA President Mike Greco.

Former judge H.T. Lockard is among those being honored in Memphis this week during the Juneteenth Freedom and Heritage Festival. Lockard, 85, helped pave the way for black politicians to come when he was elected to the old Shelby County Court (now the Shelby County Commission) in 1964. He also was a Shelby County Criminal Court judge from 1975 until his retirement in 1994. As a lawyer during the 1950s and 1960s, he was involved in cases that ended segregation in education, recreation and transportation.

The State of Tennessee is seeking an executive director to lead the newly established Tennessee Ethics Commission. The agency was established this year to "sustain the public's confidence in government by increasing the integrity and transparency of state and local government through regulation of lobbying activities, financial disclosure requirements, and ethical conduct."